Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries , or, John Falkirk's caraches

. ,14 John Falkirk1 s Carricbes.
ilioe-maker, and a taylor,) where they drank
heartily all that night, and to marrow until
mid day : and their bets were who had the
iovingeft wife: So they agreed for a trialof
their good nature, that every man fhoald do
whatever his wife bad him d) asfoo.n as ever
he went home; who did not as fhe ordered
him was to pay all the reckoning, whiqh was
feven and flxpence : or if.all of them did as
their wives bade themthen they were to pay
a'l alike. So on this agreement they allcame
away firfltothe hatter s houfe, andinhe goes
like a madman, dancing and jumping round
the floor, his wi e at the time was taking
off ihf pot and fet ingit on the floor, he flill
dancing about now fays the wife, ding over
the pot with thy n’adnefs. fo he gives it a
kick and over if went,and that faved him as
he I'ad done what his * ife bade him do.. Then
away thev go to the taylor s houfe in he goes
dancing likcwife, but his wife fell a folding
him : O fays he my dear g‘ye me a kifs? kils
my arfe you drunken rogue, faid Ihe^ th*n to
her he flies aod lay*her over th'ebed up with
her petticoats and kiffes her arfe be fore them
all, and that b.yedhim; then away they went
to the flu emaker's, and in he goes very mer¬
ry, and dancing about as he law the ether
two do : faying, come my dear heart, and
give me a kifs*? go oang yqurfelfyou drun¬
ken dog, faid flic { fa he tuuft either go and
hang himrelf direclly, cr pay the reckoning.